II Kings 04 Elisha Increases the Widow's Oil

 II Kings 04

Elisha Increases the Widow's Oil

1 Now a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two sons to be servants."

2 And Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me what you have in the house." And she said, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil."

3 And he said, "Go, borrow for yourself vessels of all your neighbors, empty vessels, not a few.

4 Then go in, and shut the door upon you and upon your sons, and pour oil into all the vessels, and set aside the full ones by themselves."

5 So she went away from him, and shut the door upon herself and upon her sons; and they brought her the vessels, and she filled them.

6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet another vessel. And he said unto her, There is no vessel left. And the oil stopped.

7 And she came and told the man of God: and he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt; and thou and thy sons may live of the rest.